Matt Clark will be delighted with this #YR plot twist… #Shick fans, not so much! 😬 Aw, ‘Shick’! Nick’s Sudden Setback On Young & Restless Signals a Shocking Stumbling Block Ahead
In a “don’t blink or you’ll miss it” moment, Young & Restless established a plot point that signalled where Nick and Sharon’s storyline is headed in the immediate future… and it’s nowhere good!
After Matt choked him out while driving and the car careened off the road, Nick Newman ended up in the hospital, where he ultimately had to undergo surgery for a broken leg. He came through looking no worse for the wear, sporting some sexy scruff and a doze-y demeanor. All good, right? Wrong.
In a slightly startling scene, Nick suddenly awoke from his post-surgery snooze in a significant amount of pain, clutching his leg and calling for Sharon to get the nurse. We’ve not since revisited the setback, leaving us to speculate about what could have gone wrong. The most obvious would be a botched surgery or a blood clot in the leg.
Why? Because Nick was in the car crash with Matt when he sustained the broken leg. Viewers saw nothing that went down between the Nick veering off the road and him showing up at the hospital.
What we do know is that this particular villain always travels with a handy-dandy little baggie of fentanyl to threaten his enemies with… we saw him show it to Annie the crooked cop at the overlook previously, as well as to Sharon.
What then, if Matt dosed Nick with fentanyl at the scene of the crash? With that as a possibility, the Newman’s seemingly out of the blue mention of “more meds” suddenly becomes more alarming than even whatever is going on with his leg.
